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The date was July 7, 2015. A typical July day in Texas—sunny and hot. I was about four months pregnant with our firstborn daughter. We had just found out that she was a girl, and had named her Annie Ruth after my great-grandmother.
I was sitting on the couch about to have my quiet time when I received a phone call from my doctor. I was told over the phone that some of the sonograms taken at the Sneak-a-Peak place did not look quite right. She tried to encourage me that the machine may not have taken good quality photos, or perhaps the issue was operator error. These were perfectly logical explanations, but my husband and I both felt uneasy ...
Before our fifth pregnancy, my husband and I always had the motto, “However many kids the Lord wants us to have.” But when we got pregnant with our fifth child, my husband told me that he believed this would be our last child. I agreed, and the Lord gave me peace in my heart that it was the right decision for our family.
My pregnancy was great, like all of my previous pregnancies had been, and as the time grew closer to our daughter’s arrival, we prepared for her as best as we could. As I went to bed, two days shy of being forty weeks, my husband put his hand on my belly because the baby was moving as she usual did. He moved his hand down near ...
Several weeks before my husband, David, left for Air Force Basic training, we found out I was pregnant with our first child. We’ve always held the belief that every life should be celebrated, so we would not hide our child’s life, no matter how brief. We weren’t “expecting” a baby. We had one. What we didn’t fully grasp were the chances of losing that baby. You hear the statistic that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss, but those odds are for other people, not for me and my baby. I’m glad of that naivety at times, because it allowed for pure celebration, undefiled by odds and statistics.
We announced the news to our ...
"Sometimes the thing you never would choose for your life, chooses you for a reason. And the thing that you’d never pick, picks you to become brave. And sometimes, you get what you need by walking through what you never wanted, and the thing you never wanted, may turn out to be the thing you need most."
Ann Voskamp
I read this quote often, and each time, I believe more and more that Garrett was this for me, for us, and for our family. I had always believed that God made beauty from ashes, but I never actually experienced this undeniable truth until Garrett. His story is one of grace, healing, hope, and God's unrelenting pursuit of our hearts.
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In July of 2015, after two years of battling infertility, my husband and I found out that we were pregnant. We were over-the-moon excited that our five-year old daughter, Aubrey, would finally have a sibling. Our excitement grew abundantly when we found out that our family would be blessed with not only one, but two babies. We were the proud parents of twins. God answered our prayers in a far bigger way than we could have imagined. He knew that our hearts’ desire was for three children.
Walking through infertility had been a heartbreaking trial in and of itself. All the time, money, appointments, medications, and toll on my body from infertility ...
“There is no amniotic fluid.” There I was, perplexed, shocked, and heartbroken. Two days earlier we had the first sonogram of our little boy where he proudly showed off that he was definitely a boy. There was plenty of fluid then. Is that what I was feeling the night before when I thought my back went into alignment?
My midwife said she could no longer be in charge of my care. I needed to be transferred into the care of an OBGYN and put in the hospital immediately. My husband, Tee Wei, was called when I was en route to the hospital, and upon our arrival we still didn’t understand what was really going on. Although I thought I should be almost ...
“Do you have kids?”
The days when that was a “simple” question to answer seem so long ago. “No, no kids yet,” was the easy answer right after my husband, Brendan, and I got married. “Not yet, but hopefully soon,” was the anxious but hopeful answer while we were waiting for God to bless us with a child. “Our first is on the way,” was the answer full of excitement and dreams coming true once we finally found out that we were expecting. Now, that question holds more emotion than I ever knew possible. “Yes, I have one precious daughter… she was born into the arms of Jesus.” This is my answer, my story, now.
Paige Abigail was, ...
On January 26, 2018, my baby boy Jase James stopped breathing in his sleep. At just 5 months old, our little boy had died to SIDS. His death was shocking, devastating, and left me disappointed with God. In the moments before meeting my son in the hospital I watched on the monitoring app on my phone while our sitter tried to revive my son.
I prayed fervently to God, "God please let my son live. God let my son have a pulse. Please, God let Jase have a pulse." As the EMT's arrived I listened intently for someone to say he was showing some signs of life. As they examined him and took over CPR, one of the EMT's said, “No pulse. No Breath.” I ...
My husband and I decided to try expanding our family in December of 2016, and with every month that passed, I learned more about my cycle than I ever thought I would have to know. We began pursuing infertility testing about a year later.
On January 25, 2018, I found out I was pregnant with our precious Logan Lee. We also received the results from my husband’s sperm analysis that day. After the stick turned blue on multiple tests, I paced our apartment for about a half hour in excitement, and then drove to Walmart to prepare a “Daddy Survival Kit” to surprise my husband when he came home that evening.
This baby was an answer to our ...
February 1, 2012, is a day that will be etched in my mind and heart forever. It is the day, nearly seven years ago, that I met and said goodbye to my son the very same day. That previous fall, my husband and I were so excited to find out we would be adding a new baby to our family. Our oldest was already one, and we couldn’t wait for her to be a big sister and experience everything that came along with having a sibling. The beginning of my pregnancy started off very smoothly. I was having all the normal first trimester pregnancy symptoms, and at our first appointment we were able to hear a beautiful heartbeat and see a sweet little baby that was ...
